G18 will be world’s first teen site to go Blu-ray!
Today, I have a bombastic piece of news:
G18 will be world’s first teen site to go Blu-ray!
Blu ray HDTV uses a version of 16Mbps AVCHD encoding.
I’ve compared the quality of this signal with 16Mbps Divx and I believe that there’s no quality loss, the formats are perfectly comparable. Yes, there’s visible quality gain from our standard HDTV 8Mbps encoding, especially in scenes with a lot of background complexity, like our favorite water scenes, and also with fine closeups.
AVCHD players are still a big trouble to find, install and run. So for now I think we’ll stick to Divx – but at true Blu-ray quality! Our raw videos are 18Mbps Sony format, which is a version of AVCHD and in a month or so we’ll start getting 24Mbps source signal. So our content is pretty much ready for Blu-ray quality distribution.
I’m reprocessing 88 latest videos into 16Mbps HDTV signal and uploading to www.G18HDTV.com as we speak.
I’ll also reprocess the closeups, now encoded in 1280x720p ar 6Mbps and publish them also in 12Mbps. So as soon as I can process and upload everything, www.g18hdtv.com will contain first 100 Blu-ray vids.